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Empire of Tea - The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World (Paperback)
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Empire of Tea - The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World (Paperback)
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Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in
Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London,
where it became an exotic, highly sought-after commodity. Over the
subsequent two centuries, tea's powerful psychoactive properties
seduced British society, becoming popular across the nation from
castle to cottage. Now the world's most popular drink, tea was one
of the first truly global products to find a mass market, with tea
drinking now stereotypically associated with British identity. The
delicate flavour profile and hot preparation of tea inspired poets,
artists and satirists. Tea was embroiled in controversy, from the
gossip of the domestic tea table to the civil disorder occasioned
by smuggling and the political scandal of the Boston Tea Party.
Based on extensive original research, and now available in
paperback, Empire of Tea provides a rich cultural history that
explores how the British `way of tea' became the norm across the
Anglophone world.
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